Cigar-wrapping machine.



J. H. DEAN.

CIGAR WRAPPING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED 02c. 14, 1914.

Patented June 12, 1917.

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J; H. DEAN.

CIGAR WRAPPING MACHlNE.

APPLICATION FILED 05c. 14. I914.

Patented June 12, 1917,

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J. H. DEAN.

CIGAR WRAPPING MACHINE.

APPLICATION man 1120.14.1914.

Patented June 12, 1917.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 12, 1917.

Application filed December 14, 1914. Serial No. 877,606.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, JOHN H. DEAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar- Wrapping Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in machines for wrapping the binders around newly rolled cigars, and its objects are: First, to provide a .means whereby the wrapping element or apron may be adjusted to wrap cigars of different diameters. Second, to provide a means whereby the slack of the apron will not be taken up until the cigar has been carried up to the surface of the wrapping table when it will be drawn closely around the cigar and so revolve the cigar as tov press the binders firmly around the cigar. Third, to provide a means whereby the tension of the spring that actuates the apron tension arms 'may be readily adjusted as desired.

I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the machine practically on the line 00 0c of Fig. 3; Fig.2 is a side elevation of the machine with the lever and the wrapping elements in position to receive a cigar; Fig. 3 is a top plan of the same; Fig. t is a bottom plan-of the same; Fig. 5 shows the apron adjusting bar partly in section to disclose the manner of-applying the clamping rod; Fig. 6 is a sectional end view of the same witha piece of the apron in place; Fig. 7 shows a piece from the side of the machine with a hole for the actuating shaft and smaller holes for locking the spring adjusting drum in place when it has been properly adjusted; Fig. '8 is a side elevation ofthe spring adjusting drum; Fig. 9 is a front, and an end view of the roller carriage; Fig. 10 is a longitudinal section of the apron roller on its supporting shaft or rod and mounted between its carriages; and Fig. 11 is an elevation of the cam that actuates the apron tension arms; Fig. 12 is a side elevation of the machine with the lever and wrapping elements advanced into position to close the fold of the apron around the cigar; Fig.13 is a like View with the lever advanced into position to carry the cigar upon the wrapping table and draw the apron closely around the cigar, and ig. 14 is a like view with the lever advanced into position to discharge the wrapped cigar from the apron.

Similar numerals and letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the construction of this machine I makea frame 1 having table 3 connected to, or integral therewith. To this frame I attach a track or guideway 2 at each side at or near the top, upon which the car riages 9, 9 are made to slide freely lengthwise of the machine. A rod or shaft 7 is mounted in these carriages, and has a. tubular sleeve 8 revolubly mounted thereon between the carriages. I provide for sliding the carriages 9, 9 longitudinally along the tracks-2 .2 by revolubly mounting a shaft 15 across the frame 1, as indicated in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4E, and mounting on one end thereof a combined arm and lever 18, and on the other end an arm 18. These arms are connected to actuate the carriages 9 9 by means of connecting rods 19, one end of each of which is pivotally connected with its respective arm, as at 23, and the other ends pivotally connected with the end of the rod 7 so that when the lever 18 is moved from its normal position at a. to the several positions Z), c and d the carriages, 9, 9, and with them the roller 8 will be drawn toward the relatively upper or right hand end of the tracks or guideways 2, 2 as shown in Figs. 12, 13 and 14, and back to the lower or left hand end of said tracks when the lever is carried back into normal position, indicated in Fig. 2.

I pivotally secure anarm 1 to each side of the frame 1, as at 5, and connect the up per ends of said arms by means of a rod 6 which extends across the end of the machine as indicated in Figs. 3 and 1, and arrange these arms so they may be made to oscillate backward and forward by means of the connecting rods 10, which are pivoted, at one end. to the arms 4, as at 2', and at the other end to the arm 12, as at 11, which said arm 12 is securely mounted on the shaft M so that if the shaft 14 is made to revolve relatively to the left in Figs. 1 and 12 the arm 12 will be carried down ward and backward and thus draw the connecting rods 10 downward and backward, as indicated by their dotted lines in Fig. 12, which will cause the upper ends of the arms 1 to be drawn back toward the frame of the machine, as indicated on Fig. 12, and the opposite movement of the shaft let will carry the arm 12, and the connecting rods 10 back into normal position. The shaft 14: is so mounted across the machine frame that it may be readily made to oscillate, and is held in normal position with the end of the arm 12 against the end of the post by means of a helical torsion spring 13, or other available element, so that the arms 1 cannot be moved until the proper movement is given to the shaft 14, to be more fully described later on. One end of the torsion spring 13 is passed over the arm 12, as indicated in Fig. 1, and the spring itself, when this form of spring is used, is wound or coiled around the shaft 14, as indicated in Fig. 1, and the other end is attached to the locking disk 18 which is provided with projecting pins 19, one end of which is designed to be engaged by the end of the spring 13 and the other end is designed to engage with, or enter one of the holes 0, 0 in the side of the frame 1, see Figs. 5, 7 ands, to lock the spring at the desired tension to hold the arm 12 securely against the post is when the lever 18 is in the positions indicated on Figs. 2, 18 and 1 1, and especially in the latter position as then the cam 20 is entirely removed from the bearing 14 on the lever or arm 14 and said bearing must be held in position to exactly enter the opening 71 in the cam when the lever 18 is brought back into position for the cam 20 to so receive said bearing, all of which will be more fully described in connection with the construction and application of said cam.

The folding or wrapping element in this machine consists of an apron 21, one end of which is secured to the rod 6 on the arms 1 4L, and the other end, after the apron has passed from the rod 6, over the roller 8, and down between the roller 8 and the lower end of the table 3, forming a loop formed receptacle 21 for the cigar, 22, and thence over the table 3, passes down and is secured to the rod 16 substantially as indicated in Fig. 1. The rod 16 is, preferably, formed with a longitudinal groove r in one side and with holes 9 g for the reception of the retaining bar or rod 17 substantially as indicated in Fig. 5 so the end of the apron 21 may be passed through the slot 02, between the rod 17 and the rod 16, and the length of the apron is adjusted by revolving the rod 16 and winding the end of the apron around the two, or unwinding it, as the case may be. The rod 16 passes through the sides of the frame 1 and 1s secured in place with a thumb screw or nut 24: by means of which the rod 16 may be so firmly secured as to avert all danger of the rod being made to revolve by reason of the tension on the apron when wrapping a cigar, or it may be loosened for the purpose of revolving the rod to either lengthen or shorten the apron, as the size of the cigars, 22, to be wrapped might demand.

The apron 21 is manipulated for wrapping the cigars practically as follows: A

cam 20 is firmly secured to the lever arm 18 and is so arranged that the points 9 and 2', see Fig. 11, are equidistant from the center on of the shaft 15, while the point it is considerably farther removed from said center. The shaft 1 1 has an arm 14: at one end just outside of the side of the frame 1, and this arm has a roller bearing projecting from one side of its free end in position to travel on the groove g, h, 2' of the cam 20. When the lever 18 is in normal position, shown in Fig. 2, the roller bearing 14L is located at g, or at the extreme end of the groove 9, h, i, and the arm 12, see Fig. 1 is held firmly against the end of the post is so that the connecting rods 10 will hold the arms 4, l, and the rod (3 in the position indicated in Figs. 1, 2, 3 4, 13 and 1%. When the lever 18 is raisedfrom the position indicated at a in Fig. 2 to that indicated at'Z), see Fig. 12, the movement of the roller bearing let on the cam from the point 9 to a the difference of the distance from mto g, and from m to 72. see Fig. 11 causes the arm 1 1 to be carried upward and revolve the shaft 14 a short distance in a proper direction to throw the arm 12 downward, as indicated in Fig. 1 which draws the apron supporting rod 6 from the position shown in Fig. 2 to the position shown in Fig. 12, without lessening the size of the loop 21, and no pressure is brought to bear upon the cigar 22, but when the lever 18 is raised from b to c the roller bearing 14 passes from h to '5 in the cam 20 and this causes the shaft 1 1 to revolve back into normal position with the arm 12 against the post 70, where it is held by the spring 13 while the lever is being carried along to cl. During the time the roller bearing is moving from h to i the movement of the arm 12 up to the post is forces the arms at 4 back into normal position (see Fig. 1) and the loop 21 in the apron 21 is shortened so the cigar 22 is carried to the point indicated in Fig. 13 and a heavy strain is exercised upon the apron so the cigar will be pressed firmly within the fold or loop of the apron as it is made to roll over the table. When the lever moves to the position shown in Fig. 1a the cigar is carried beyond the end of the table 3 and drops from the apron 21.

When the arm 12 is in contact with the post 70 the arm ll is in such a position that the roller bearing 14; will exactly enter the cam 20 at i when the lever 18 is brought back to 0, so there is never a possibility of the cam being brought back into normal position without engaging the roll-bearing and actuating the shaft 14c as "desired and necessary.

' It is to be understood thatthe roller 8 is normally under the apron 21, butthat the presence of the cigar 22 in the loop 21 of the apron causes the movement of the roller and thesupporting rod to raise the'loop so the cigar will be made to raise upon, and to roll along between the folds of the apron that form the loop, and the roller will travel over the two folds of'the apron forming a second loop over and ahead of the cigar, by means of which the cigar is firmly pressed between the folds that form its loop. and will be made to revolve along the table until it reaches the end thereof and falls out of its loop and away from the machine as indicated in Fig. "14, when the apron so adjusts itself that the roller 8 travels back along the surface of the ta bleunderthe apron. lVhen the roller 8 reaches its normal position, indicated in Figs. 1, 13 and 1%, the apron should be pressed downward between the end of the table and the roller to form the loop 21 for the reception of another cigar 22, see Fig. 1, and as the binder 25 lies between the cigar and the surface of the apron the revoluble movement of the cigar in the folds of the apron as it is drawn along thesurface of the table by the movement of the roller 8 winds the binder closely around the cigar and causes it toadhere closely to the surface thereof.

WVhen the lever 18 is traveling from c to (Z, the cam 20 is disengaged from the roller 14" on the arm 14 and the supporting rod 6 stands idle in the position indicated in Fig. 1 1 and holds the apron at full and even strain or tension around the cigar while the cigar is being rolled between the folds of the apron to the end of the table and drops therefrom, after which the apron is slacked and the lever is returned to 0 when the roller 1% enters the slot in the cam at i, passing to g and operating the rod 6 and the arms at as hereinbefore described as the lever 16 is moving from c to a.

lVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States,

1. In a cigar wrapping machine, a frame having a table, an inclined guideway secured to the frame at each edge of the table, carriages mounted on said guideways to slide longitudinally thereon, a roller revolubly mounted in said carriages and extending across the machine, an ad ustable supporting rod extending across the end of the machine back of the roller, actuating arms pivotally mounted on the frame, connecting rods pivotally connected with sald arms and with the carriages, an adjusting rod revolubly secured in the frame, an apron secured at one end to the supporting rod *ingacross the frame'and secured to the carand at the other "end tothe adjusting rod, and means for operating the apron to-wrap binders around the cigars.

2. In acigar wrapping machine, a frame having a table thereon, a guideway at each side of the frame adjacent to theedges of the table and inclined from the horizontal,

carriages mounted on the guideways to slide longitudinally thereof, a'roller rod'extendp riages, a roller. revolu'bly mounted on 'Sflltl rod between the carriages, a shaft revolubly mounted near'the front 'end of the frame, actuating arms mounted on said shaft. conextending loop between theend of the table and'the roller, a lever for actuating the arms and the carriages, and means connected with the lever whereby the supporting rod may be made to reciprocate forward and backward to adjust the tension of the apron when wrap-ping binders around cigars.

3. In a cigar wrapping machine, a frame having a table thereon, a guideway at each side of the frame adjacent to the edges of the table, carriages mounted on the guideways to slide longitudinally thereon, a roller supporting rod mounted on the carriages, a roller mounted on said rod between the carriages, a shaft mounted in the front end of the machine near the bottom, an arm mounted on each end of the shaft outside of the frame, a lever integral with one of said arms, a connecting rod connecting each arm with one end of the roller rod, a cam on one of said arms, arms pivotally connected with the back end of the frame and extending upward, a supporting rod mounted in the upper ends of said arms and extending across the frame, a shaft revolubly mounted in. the frame near the center of the sides, an arm projecting backward from the center of said shaft, a connecting rod pivotally connected at one end with said arm and at the other end with the supporting rod arms, and a spring connected with said shaft and the frame to hold the shaft and arm in normal position, a post extending downward from the table back of the said arm, an arm extending forward from one end of said shaft, a roller on the end of said arm in position to be made to engage and be operated by the cam on the actuating arm to give the shaft an oscillating movement and the supporting rod a reciprocating movement forward and backward with a pause between each forward and backward movement of the lever.

4. In a cigar wrapping machine, a frame having a table thereon inclining from the horizontal and having one end curved downward, a guideway at each edge of the table, carriages mounted to slide longitudinally on said guideways, a rod secured in said carriages with its ends projecting be yond the outer surfaces thereof, a roller mounted on said rod between the carriages and extending across the machine, a shaft revolubly mounted in the front lower corner of the frame, an arm mounted on each end of said shaft, one of said arms extended to form a lever for actuating said machine, connecting rods pivotally connected at one end to said arms and at the other ends to the roller rod, a cam mounted on the lever extended arm, a rod supporting arm pivotally connected at one end to the back end of the frame, a supporting rod secured in the free ends of said arms and extending across the machine, a post extending downward from the table, a shaft revolubly mounted in the frame forward of the post,

an adjusting rod across the front end of the frame below the edge of the table, means for loosening said rod for free revoluble movement and for securing it firmly against its revoluble movement, an apron secured at one end to the supporting rod and at the other end to the adjusting rod to lie upon the table and the roller forming a loop in the apron to receive cigars.

Signed at Grand Rapids Michigan November 30, 1914:.

JOHN H. DEAN.

In presence of I. J. CILLEY, J 01-1 W. HILDING.

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Washington, D. G. 

